I much prefer natural lighting Gregory, and you've done well. Of course, you do have a very photogenic subject there. I love the intensity in her eyes in the third shot! LOL Looks like we're going to get a new forum member in a while. A very cute little girl and well lit shots.
Cheers, Sandi

Good job all the way around Gregory! I really like your use of white in #3 and 4. That's the thing I like the best about using sunlight - it's impossible to balance with the shadows, so you are forced to use the white space and you've done so excellently. I'll bet your daughter's photo from #3 is likewise bright.

Gale: She told me she wanted to go pet the monkey and then went up and stood there like that waiting for me to take the pic. As soon as I took some pics, she moved to a different postition around the monkey and posed, so I actually have many different shots with her and the monkey. I like that one the best too.

She actually had to wait quite a while (around 10 minutes) as some other kids were playing around with the monkey and were taking photos, but she stood patiently behind the line of fire until the others were done.

GeeJay: Flash would definately have helped with #1. The backlighting is very strong and as a resutl of the subjects being in the shade, the colors are not that great and I had to do heavy shadow enhancement stuff on that photo.

It would have helped with the second one too, and lightened up the shadow.

It's just takes more work to balance out the stobe so that it's not overpowering, and I was just lazy, and also wanted to shoot with bit of lighter gear.

mrdinh: Thanks, well natural light sure is heck of a lot easier to shoot, that's for sure, as you really don't have too much control over the lighting. Flash takes a lot of tweaking to get right, and the flash sync thing is always an issue, especially at ISO200.

TOLady: Thanks. Yes, my daughter is very easy to take photos of, in fact, she enjoys the sessions and often asks daddy for a photo session (like that day).

Chris101: Thanks! Yeah, that's what I find. It actually helps out with really busy backgrounds. The photo my daughter took in that shot is actually very well exposed since she's shooting with the sun behind her. I'll post her photo in this thread for ya to see in a little bit.

greyflash: Thanks! Always easy subjects. I don't know why I can't find more time to photograph them, but I'm working on it.

So how did you handle highlights and shadows ? Did you did a lot of post-processing ?

Excellent use of light indeed !.

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Well, the first one (the one with the deer) I used d-lighting to try to retain some of the highlight info - I don't quite like it. Every time I try to tweak an image in post, the more I tweak the image, the worse it looks to me.

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